Curious.....

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Thu, 04-12-2007 - 6:22pm

I've been thinking about the recent discussion about "opinions" and the Imus case comes to mind as an example, an extreme example for sure...but an example none the less.


Here's a link to one of the many stories about this issue


http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/09/imus.ap/index.html?eref=ew?cid=CNN+Showbiz+Feed


So is it true, if someone

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In reply to: pumpkinangel
Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:31am

If your kids attend school, they are used to hearing jokes about physical appearance.

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In reply to: pumpkinangel
Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:33am

Exactly!

PumpkinAngel

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In reply to: pumpkinangel
Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:33am
I know, you insinuated it.
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In reply to: pumpkinangel
Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:34am

Huh?


PumpkinAngel

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In reply to: pumpkinangel
Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:34am
Just because you see it a certain way doesn't mean that others do.
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Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:36am
I draw the line with blonde jokes. I don't tell fat mamma jokes, Polish jokes, etc.
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In reply to: pumpkinangel
Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:39am

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I disagree and making general broad sweeping statements

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:39am

It's called the etymology of a word. If you know anything about the Oxford English Dictionary, you realize it is the most authoritative dictionary in the English language. It defines nappy as:

2. U.S. slang (freq. derogatory.). Of hair, esp. that of a black person: frizzy.
1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 523 Hair nappy or very spiral. 1927 B. GRANT Nappy Head Blues (song) in R. R. MacLeod Yazoo 1{em}20 (1988) 21 Your head is nappy, your feet's so mamlish long. 1971 Black World June 71/2 Her hair..was in the bushy style that the freedom riders had brought. They called it ‘natural’; Bojack called it nappy. 1987 E. LEONARD Bandits iv. 56 The other one was Creole-looking, a light-skinned black guy with pointy cheekbones and nappy hair.

3. (Sense 2) nappy-haired, -headed adjs. nappy head U.S. slang (derogatory), a black person.
1954 L. ARMSTRONG Satchmo v. 86 She was short and *nappy haired and she had buck teeth. 1995 E. WHITE Farewell Symphony (1998) viii. 311 Kevin was thrilled one night when he picked up a dark, muscular, nappy-haired guy. 1973 Black World Apr. 63 All them ol' *nappy-heads runnin' up there tryin' to pull his clothes off. 1994 A. SINCLAIR Coffee will make you Black xii. 117 Donald yells ‘nappy head’ every time the teacher calls her name. 1896 Atlantic Monthly May 719 Think I must 'a' ben cunjered when I married a man black like George, an' now I has this houseful o' *nappy-headed chillun. 1950 A. LOMAX Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 80 Light-skinned Downtown shared the bandstand with ‘real black and nappy-headed’ Uptown. 1997 Jrnl. Blacks in Higher Educ. No. 17. 92 (caption) Always the big joke was that black people were big-lipped, bug-eyed, nappy-headed, and stupid.




Edited 4/20/2007 10:40 am ET by geschichtsgal
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In reply to: pumpkinangel
Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:41am

No, I didn't....


PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 04-20-2007 - 10:43am

So again I ask, how is blonde not a description of appearance?

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